Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Never read OBSOLETE!? We'll mail you a FREE COPY!* This week, we distributed over 2000 copies of the new OBSOLETE! #8–
shipping directly to supporters and “guerilla distributors” from coast
to coast, and placing stacks at locally-owned businesses. More copies
will go out this summer through website orders and tabling at cons, book
fairs, zine fests and other events.
Unfortunately, our business
model is slightly flawed. It turns out, you can't pay writers and
artists, and give the magazine away for free, and not go broke. Who
knew? (They never explained this to me in art school....)
So, we
are going to a subscription model, and using Kickstarter because it
provides a platform where there is NO RISK to the subscribers- if we
don't raise enough to continue publishing, you will be charged nothing,
and we will go back to printing zines on a ditto machine.
Would you like a bundle to distribute in your town, and help spread the word about OBSOLETE!? Contact us and we'll make it happen!
*(supply limited, US only...)

Friday, June 21, 2013

Because OBSOLETE!
is a real, get your fingers dirty newsprint tabloid, we opted for a 60
day Kickstarter campaign to give us time to get papers out on the street
and into the hands of our fellow Analog Anarchists. We will go into
full swing with promotions on July 11th, but in the mean time, we are offering to mail a sample copy of OBSOLETE! #8, hot off of the presses, to YOU– free of charge. Just send us your mailing address with the subject "Sample Copy", get your free copy of issue #8 and decide for yourself if OBSOLETE!
is worth your support. If you decide to pledge at $25 or more (and the
campaign is successful) you will receive issues 9-12 delivered to your
door.
Thanks everybody! And please, share these updates with your friends. Together, we can keep OBSOLETE! alive!!!

Monday, June 17, 2013

Please join us for a live reading of new and selected work by Austin, Texas poet W. Joe Hoppe.

Iowa's Obsolete Press published Joe's second book of poems, Diamond
Plate, and Joe serves as poetry editor for OBSOLETE! Magazine.

"Diamond Plate is a junkyard sutra, a rock-and-roll dharma, a tattooed
vision of eternity. In the palm of your hand there's a planet, alongside
a sick pet rat, a tree that weeps, and some spilled beer. W. Joe Hoppe
offers us poems of ordinary transcendence, with a child-a real
child-rising out of the rubble." - Nick Flynn, author of Another
Bullshit Night in Suck City

The latest edition of the OBSOLETE! is
hot off the press! The theme of this issue is “Obsolete Media:
It's Alive!”, and features articles on making art with ancient
computers, low-power FM radio, “Numbers Stations” and the history
of “Dazzle” camouflage. ObMag #8 is also packed with poetry,
comics, art and fiction, featuring original work by Mick Farren and
an exclusive preview of Christian Schoon's new SciFi novel Zenn
Scarlett.

Please
help support OBSOLETE!

OBSOLETE!
Magazine is at a turning point. With the help of supporters like you,
we have given away more than 14,000 copies of issues 1-8 over the
last 3 years. Unfortunately, the “Free Press” model is no longer
sustainable for us. Now, we need to raise some real money to keep the
paper alive, and we are putting it in the hands of you, the readers.
By using Kickstarter and the “All or Nothing” approach, we will
raise the funds to make the next four issues possible– or we will
cease to publish in our current format.

You
can pledge by going to our Kickstarter page. Rewards include
subscriptions to the next four issues, t-shirts, books, newspaper
carrier bags and more. If we do not reach our goal, you will not be
charged for your pledge.

EARLY
SUPPORTER SPECIAL: For the first 20 people to pledge at $10 or more,
you will receive a free copy of #8 mailed to your door (or pdf if you
prefer). If the campaign is unsuccessful, you will not be charged for
your pledge, but you will still receive your free copy.